Word: impressionable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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The gold braid of Foreign Service leaves much the same romantic impression in a young man's mind as do the graceful chain of lakes that surround the University of Wisconsin. Publishing appears as an affable, gentlemanly vocation to the young graduate seeking a job. Industry has lost caste in...
Busier was another Commissar last week, Andrey Andreevitch Andreev, recently appointed Commissar for Transportation. Fortnight ago he utilized his new powers by condemning four railwaymen of the Trans-Siberia Railway to death for criminal negligence (TIME, Jan. 11). Last week he attempted to counteract this unfortunate impression by announcing that...
To this blast. "Phil M. Daly" (Jack Harrower), Film Daily colyumist, responded by accusing Macy advertisements of giving the public an erroneous impression that "the department store workers are just One Big Happy Family." He reminded Mr. Collins that the Better Business Bureau of New York has condemned advertisements which...
Swann's Courtesan, Dr. William Francis Gray Swann, president of the American Physical Society, looked waggish as he talked in ancient puns on "reality." In reality he was deadly serious. Said he: "Reality is the most alluring of all courtesans, for she makes herself what you would have her at...
Like many another child, Peggy Ann Hoover, the President's granddaughter, has been frightened by big bad bear stories.* White House attendants, to keep her out of mischief, told her that a fierce black one lived in the basement of the Executive Offices. Peggy Ann became curious about bears...